Government Pavilion, C/ Padre Herrera s/n
Post Office Box 456
38200, San Cristobal de La Laguna
Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Spain
Switchboard Tel.: (+34) 922 31 90 00
Hours: Mon, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Francisco Javier García Rodríguez
Rector
Francisco J. García Rodríguez (Tijarafe, La Palma, 1971) holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration (1994) and a PhD in Economics from the University of La Laguna (2002). He is a professor of business organization in the Department of Business Management and Economic History.
- Convene, chair, and direct the meetings of the Senate, Governing Council, Advisory Board, and Board of Directors, and establish their corresponding agenda.
- Execute the agreements validly adopted by the Senate, the Governing Council, the Social Council, and any decisions required by the ordinary development of university activities.
- Authorize and approve expenses and order payments, as provided in the University budget.
- Appoint and hire those who have been proposed by the corresponding hiring or selection committees.
- Conduct the application process for competitive positions for access to university teaching bodies through the national qualification system.
- To call for competitions to fill positions on teaching staff and other personnel, as well as to appoint the corresponding selection committees in accordance with these Statutes and current legislation.
- Conduct the call for admission tests for university teaching staff in accordance with the regulations for the development of competitions for admission to university teaching staff approved by the Governing Council.
- To appoint and dismiss, upon proposal or report from the bodies responsible for doing so, all individual governing or administrative bodies of the various Centers, Departments, Institutes, services and units.
- Preside over events organized by the University, without prejudice, where applicable, to the protocol prerogatives of other authorities.
- Authorize all public events to be held in the University's buildings, facilities, or spaces, without prejudice to the powers that may correspond to the Deans or Directors in this regard in relation to their Centers.
- Represent the University in court and grant any necessary powers of attorney.
- Submit a written report to the Senate for discussion on the general state of the University, which must include, at a minimum, an analysis of teaching, research, and financial management.
- Exercise any other powers provided for in these Statutes and any other powers not expressly assigned to other University bodies.
Francisco J. García Rodríguez (Tijarafe, La Palma, 1971) holds a degree in Economics and Business Administration (1994) and a PhD in Economics from the University of La Laguna (2002). He is a professor of business organization in the Department of Business Management and Economic History.
He has 23 academic years of uninterrupted and continuous experience teaching formally at university level, 22 of them full-time in subjects within the Business Organization area. The total number of hours taught during this period in formally regulated courses (not including his own degrees) has been more than 4,000. In addition to this, he has taught other modalities, such as his own degrees or university extension courses.
He has specialized in two main lines of research: entrepreneurship and corporate social responsibility, generating a wealth of scientific output, materialized in fifty-three articles compiled in internationally recognized scientific databases, five full-length books, thirty book chapters, and one hundred and seven papers presented at national and international conferences. He has participated in fourteen competitive research projects, serving as principal investigator in nine of them. He has held three six-year research positions.
He is a member of the two most established entrepreneurship research networks at an international level: Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students' Survey, (GUESS), which produces a biannual global study to gather the perspectives of the university community regarding entrepreneurship, and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the largest global network of entrepreneurship research, led by Babson College (USA) and London Business School (UK). This research leadership has also been reflected in my participation in national and international scientific committees, as well as in the editorial boards of prominent journals, including the most important in the field of Hospitality, the International Journal of Hospitality Management. I have also been part of the team of thirty-eight R&D&I transfer projects with various public and private institutions, of which I have been the principal investigator in twenty-six.
He has held various university academic management positions, including Vice-Rector for Relations with Society, assuming responsibility for entrepreneurship and employability (2015-2019), as well as Director and Secretary of Department and Vice-Dean. He has served as Director of the official Master's Degree in Foreign Trade Management and Vice-Coordinator of the interuniversity doctoral program in tourism, in which eleven Spanish universities participate. In the field of transfer, he launched and directed for three years (2008-2011) the University of La Laguna's entrepreneurship promotion program (Emprende.ull), and the University's own Bachelor's Degree in Entrepreneurial Development (2014-2016). He currently chairs the entrepreneurship section of the Spanish Scientific Association of Economics and Business Management (ACEDE).
